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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?
(a) Pun.
(b) Hypotaxis.
(c) Syllogism.
(d) Asyndeton.

2. In "Like Church," the speaker uses the Spanish term of endearment "Mi caracol" (29). What is the literal translation of this expression?
(a) My peanut.
(b) My cabbage.
(c) My rabbit.
(d) My snail.

3. In "The Mustangs," where does the speaker go to high school?
(a) Mountain Pass, California.
(b) Golden Shores, Arizona.
(c) Needles, California.
(d) Willow Valley, Arizona.

4. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
(a) A jaguar.
(b) A train.
(c) A bomb.
(d) A carnivorous plant.

5. In "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) An owl.
(b) A cat.
(c) A bull.
(d) A wolf.

6. In "Ink-Light," the speaker mentions "the ramus" of which of the beloved's body parts?
(a) Jaw.
(b) Stomach.
(c) Eye.
(d) Thigh.

7. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?
(a) The hard work of a relationship is compared to agricultural work.
(b) Sex with the beloved is compared to the Christian rite of communion.
(c) Jealousy and possessiveness in a relationship is compared to cannibalism.
(d) Coming home to the beloved is compared to the Ancient Greek tradition of hospitality.

8. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?
(a) Ariadne's advice to Theseus.
(b) Commentary about U.S. history.
(c) The title of a Whitman poem.
(d) Directions from the forest to the sea.

9. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Personification.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

10. In "The Mustangs," what figure of speech is employed in the phrase "hooves rumbling like weather in my ears" (35)?
(a) Pathetic Fallacy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Simile.

11. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her brother.

12. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?
(a) It refers to the poem "Sleep and Poetry."
(b) It refers to the poem "Romance Sonámbulo."
(c) It refers to a character from the movie Sleepwalking.
(d) It refers to a character from the novel Intemperie.

13. In "Like Church," to what does the speaker compare the beloved's hip?
(a) A window.
(b) The quarter moon.
(c) An orchard.
(d) A searchlight.

14. In "Wolf OR-7," what is the "trembling blue line" (32)?
(a) The GPS map of the wolf's movements.
(b) The line connecting stars in a constellation.
(c) The path the speaker travels to find the beloved.
(d) The Colorado River.

15. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The wise women who control fate.
(b) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.
(c) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(d) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?

2. What is significant about the star Antares in "Blood-Light"?

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

4. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?

5. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?

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